Trump Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025
Donald Trump’s family business increased its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis published recently claimed.
Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.
The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended.
It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, based on available data.
The disclosure comes amid a crackdown on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on skilled worker visas; extra scrutiny of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold American work permits; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.
In total, the business sought to employ over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.
Significantly, Trump was criticized by certain in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.
“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend billions to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees.
The White House declined a request for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.
